Skye
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SKYE
Design
Notes
- Style guide (for alternate outfits): Punk clothing in mostly black with neon highlights and accents, particularly neon pink and blue (or bright red when she's feeling especially violent). Lightweight chokers and bracelets. Almost always wears black calf-high Doc Martens with bright green shoelaces - the laces were a gift, and can tie and untie themselves. Wears a lot of torn-up/"distressed" clothing, and usually nothing too warm since she moves around constantly. Headwear of choice is a beanie, but sometimes goes without, or just wears a hoodie and keeps the hood up.
- Hair is almost always kept down, but she ties it up in a very short low ponytail for martial arts practice.
- Notable accessories: a dog tag chain with a gold ring and a silver lightning pendant hanging on it, and a magical set of brass knuckles called "the ghost punchers." The brass knuckles never had a physical prop equivalent, so appearance is open to interpretation.
- Outlines her entire eye in liquid eyeliner. Sometimes wears eye shadow matching her clothes, otherwise doesn't wear much makeup.
- Usually looks somewhere between bored and angry/frustrated in expression and posture. Her grin is wide, and can be kind of terrofying in some contexts, though she smiles more nicely when something exciting (and non-violent) is going on.
- Fae form (Hibana) is a fox, and as such always looks pretty much the same (see gallery). Hibana is about 30 cm/1 foot tall.
Backstory
Human
WIP
Fae
WIP
Post-Fatebinding
WIP
Personality
Skye, like most Tales of Fury, is always a little on edge, with an excess of aggressive energy that she doesn't usually get the opportunity to fully expend. She tries to keep this focused in postivie directions - or, at least, directed at the people she thinks of as "the bad guys," but even so, she has a tendency towards loudness, impulsivity, and anger. When in an occasional good mood, though, or talking to people she's comfortable with, she's much more enthusiastic and (mostly) harmlessly boisterous.
Skills/Interests
Kung Fu
Skye has been enrolled in martial arts since she was a teenager, and reached red belt in kung fu when she was 18. Since then, she has become an assistant instructor, reached black belt, and is in training to become an independent "full instructor" with her own dojo. This is a long-term process, but kung fu means a lot to her, and it's the one thing she is pretty sure she'd be happy making a steady career out of.
Street Art
Skye's first and foremost hobby is graffiti/street art. Even though she couldn't keep any mops or spray cans around her grandparents' house while she was living with them, she would find places to stash them around the city and practice tagging while she was out in the evenings, under the moniker "Plasma". She hasn't stopped this practice, but she's refined her art, and these days tends to commit to a selection of more elaborate street art with an ideological purpose in mind, rather than mainly fancy tags as she used to do.
Parkour
Skye picked up parkour in a self-taught capacity during her time as a runaway, but kept practicing a few stunts regularly after moving in with her grandparents, even though kung fu started taking up more of her time outside of school. It's still her favorite way to burn excess energy outside of sparring.
Flaws/Struggles
Grudges
Skye tends to feel like most of the world is against her and her friends, a feeling which is compounded by the many enemies of the Fatebound, as well as the treatment of her homeless friends by much of the rest of society. She tends to be pessimistic towards strangers, and even more so, goes out of her way to antagonize people that she feels she has a specific reason to dislike.
Impulsivity
Skye is actively practicing the art of curbing her immediate impulses, especially towards aggression and risky behavior. Considering benefits and consequences before committing to a course of action doesn't come naturally to her, especially post-Fatebinding, although her mindfulness training as part of her martial arts advancement has given her some tools to work with in that regard.
Related (NPCs)
Henri//Sekiun
Hibana's older sister Sekiun travelled to Earth and became a Fatebound some time after Hibana herself did. After Skye had to rescue her from a serial killer (?) who had kidnapped her, Sekiun (now "Henri" due to her human half) and Skye have stayed in close touch. They have each other's backs more than anyone else's, as a rule.
Ashe
Ashe was one of three homeless teenagers that Skye hung around with after running away from home. They had a vague, implicit relationship during that time, although it became somewhat difficult to keep in touch after Skye moved in with her grandparents. Still, Skye managed to get all three of her old friends jobs at a local thrift store run by another Fatebound, and when Skye became an instructor and moved into her own apartment, Ashe (mostly informally) moved in with her. Ashe is also a Fatebound, and took her Fae name as her "normal" name upon Fatebinding at age 15, since she didn't like her given name. The Fae that she Fatebound with - a Cinder (Tale of Artistry) - had a much more mature perspective on life, which (in contrast to Skye) made Ashe wiser and more serene than she had been before. Aside from Ashe's regular work, she enjoys handcrafting art and trinkets (especially wind chimes) out of discarded items she finds on the street and leaving them around the city. She has also started a small-scale fashion line using recycled fabric, which affords her some revenue on top of her regular salary but is mostly just a passion project.
Mr. and Mrs. Brennan
Skye had a rocky relationship with her fairly-strict grandparents all through her teenage years, from the time that they brought her into their household when she was 15. In constrast to her adopted parents' very relaxed parenting method, Skye's adoptive father's parents cracked down on a lot of things that Skye enjoyed doing, and started grounding her for acting out as well as getting bad grades. Although she unfortunately resented them a lot by the time she moved out, their relationship has improved a lot since then, now that they feel less need to "correct" her behavior.
Bonus Facts
- Skye drinks a very large quantity of very black coffee on the regular - occasionally also energy drinks, but she feels strongly about taking care of her body as much as she can, so not very often. Her unhealthy habits are mostly limited to a) occasional junk food and b) vaping, which she picked up before she learned how unhealthy it is, and is still trying to quit.
- Skye is lesbian (homoromantic) and asexual, and has patches for both flags stitched on her favorite jacket.
- Skye's favorite video game is Super Smash Bros., although she plays a wide range of FPS, TPS, and 2D fighting games when she's not busy roaming around outdoors.
- As a feature of her Fae motif, Skye gets especially antsy during storms and heavy rain, so she tends to distance herself from people during those times.
- Skye was inspired by my love for street art, skateboarding, parkour, and a bunch of other activities that I am nowhere near cool enough to practice myself. /j Of course, being played by me, her punkness inevitably ended up a bit watered-down. So, I tried to incorporate a sort of childishness into her character, as of a teenager who tries to be tough and grapple with a difficult environment despite a core of youthful eagerness. Comparable characters include Wyldstyle from The Lego Movie and Stella from Lemonade Mouth (not to mention basically any other "punk" or "rebellious" character from child-appropriate media), as well as the ringleader in the Summer Nights music video by Siames, although the latter wasn't released until Skye had already been retired from play.
- Skye has her own Spotify playlist! You can find it here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/36ONXp9WkF32Iv5nedM37C
